Death transfigured into life and some answers to life’s Big Questions.

Be uplifted, be transfigured, be astonished. Two epic tone poems from early in Strauss’s career find the composer questioning the meaning of life and death. Epic fanfares, waltzes and soaring themes seem to provide the answers. Decades later, his sweet and lyrical Oboe Concerto rose out of the rubble of war-devastated Germany, effectively commissioned by a young American soldier (who happened to be an oboist!). Principal oboist of the Berlin Philharmonic and former CBSO principal oboe Jonathan Kelly takes on the solo duties, with the CBSO conducted by Kazuki Yamada.

This concert is generously supported by Jerry Sykes.

About Kazuki conducts Strauss

POWERFUL & ROMANTIC

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